T-Mobile Announces ‘Digits’ to Unlock Your Phone Number From One Phone

U.S. wireless service these days unveiled a brand new carrier, referred to as Digits, which objectives to uncouple your phone quantity out of your cellular units and wireless carrier plans.

In accordance to T-Mobile CEO John Legere, Digits makes it in order that you can use your T-Mobile quantity throughout more than one units like smartphones, drugs, smartwatches, desktop PCs and wearable units.

Digits will even allow you to use more than one T-Mobile numbers at the similar tool, making it simple to mix your paintings, house and private numbers on a unmarried smartphone with calls and texts showing from the similar quantity.

“DIGITS is a straightforward, no-fuss leap forward generation that permits you to name and textual content out of your quantity throughout more than one units, and name and textual content from more than one numbers on one tool. DIGITS is your actual phone quantity, however it could possibly achieve this a lot more.”

Out of the gate, Digits is constructed into some Samsung-branded Android units, together with the Galaxy S6 and later, however on iOS it's going to be to be had thru a specialised app. It's going to even be to be had on Macs as smartly, which can paintings in the course of the browser — so long as you employ Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

There’s a beta for T-Mobile ONE and Easy Selection consumers starting nowadays, and also you con enroll right here. It’s loose now, but if the carrier launches to the general public in early 2017, there might be a per thirty days rate hooked up.

“This isn’t the primary time you'll be able to upload additional numbers to a tool, however this IS the primary time you'll be able to do all of it—more than one numbers on one tool and one quantity on more than one units—and do it with carrier-grade high quality,” stated Mike Sievert, T-Mobile’s COO.

If Digits is used on a tool with out mobile carrier, or it’s now not hooked up to T-Mobile’s community, you’ll obtain texts and high-definition calls over a Wi-Fi connection. Without reference to the software you’re on, you’ll see your name log, messages, contacts and voicemail.